Art & Law Residency Announces 2011 Residents
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Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts has just announced its 2011 Art & Law Residency Program residents.
The eight visual artists, four writers, and curatorial assistant will meet for semi-monthly Seminars directed at the theoretical and critical examination of current art and law issues. During the course of the Program, artists and writers will develop new projects and papers and receive support from Faculty on a regular basis to discuss and address the aesthetic, practical, philosophical, legal and judicial aspects of their work. The Residency takes place in New York City, and will culminate in a public Exhibition at the Maccarone Gallery and a Symposium where the participants will exhibit their projects and present papers. Seminar leaders include
The Residents are:
Artists:
Amina Bech is a Norwegian artist who works with photography based art, video and performative actions. With a background in scenography & new media, her photographs has frequently related to a scenographic approach. She aims to use the means of set and stage production to modulate communication – whether in exhibition projects, in real urban space or on stage. Summer 2010 Bech was a part of a 2 months studio residency in Palestine, The West Bank, investigating the urban fabric and landscape of Battir.The residency program was the first collaborative venture in a developing partnership between the Al-Quds Bard Honors College, the UNESCO /Battir Landscape Office, and the Bethlehem-based collective Decolonizing Architecture. The program focused on the relationship between space and law in the Area C of Palestine and have recently been shown at 0047 in Oslo and at REDCAT Gallery in Los Angeles. www.aminabech.net
Michael Cataldi was born in 1982 in Philadelphia, and currently lives and works in New York City. Cataldi received a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004; attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2005, received a fellowship at Socrates Sculpture Park in 2006, and was awarded a workspace studio at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2007. He completed a Masters in Urban Planning from the City University of New York in 2009 and the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2010. His installations, photographic projects, and drawings have been shown in Baltimore, Washington D.C., and New York. Cataldi’s work has been featured in the Village Voice, Art in America, and Artforum.
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